![One of the nearly 400 slaughtered barbarians thought to be buried at Alken Enge in Denmark. Credit: Holst et al./ PNAS/ CC by 4.0](https://historylearning.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/skellington1-100x100.jpg)
Around 2,000 years ago, a mixed group of around 400 Germanic tribesmen marched into battle against an unknown opponent. None of them survived. These are the findings of a recent archaelogical dig at Alke Enge – a peat bog nestled among the Illerup River Valley in Denmark – where nearly 2,100 bones belonging to dead… Continue reading
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